Hey guys,
To pitch into the discussion, and also to change the subject line. To be
fail to the fair quality books, some of them that I find continue to be
mislabelled. Sure, it is true that havinga bad qality book is not cool,
but I think that some people accidentally label a book fair if they are
unsure of the processes involved in submittal of material. There books
still residual in the collection that are still left from the days hwhre
bugs still were present in the system. Also, the blame could rest with the
validator. You have to read the book at least a little bit to determine
whether or not the autmoated word counter is correct. I scanned an Irish
history book once, and being that lots and lots of names and places (and
Irish language words) were not in upper case, they obviously came in as a
fair rating. Being that we are volunteers, the whole process is
subjective, but a quick read through that book at least, would have been
evident that this was the case. Make sure you don't accept the default
setting tat the radio button hits IF the predicted text quality is
wrong. This doesn't happen, or hasn't happened often with books I've
submitted, but its happened, and I'm sure if I were to page through the
collection and browse and download fair rated books, I would find other
examples like this.
Luckily, we're finding more and more excellent rated books, and though I
think its not a good thing to have books with missing pages and illegible
passages, one has to be subjective about the process and realize that the
rating could ahve been in error. Elligible books should be not even
accepted if they're that bad though, definitely though.
Hope this wasn't too confusing. I probably should go to sleep before I
become more incoherent :).
Ner
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